Genesis 17:23

17:23 Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) ¹  and circumcised them ²  on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

Genesis 21:14

21:14 Early in the morning Abraham took ³  some food ⁴  and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, ⁵  and sent her away. So she went wandering ⁶  aimlessly through the wilderness ⁷  of Beer Sheba.

Psalms 119:60

119:60 I keep your commands

eagerly and without delay. ⁸ 

Ecclesiastes 9:10

9:10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, ⁹ 

do it with all your might,

because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, ¹⁰ 

the place where you will eventually go. ¹¹ 

Isaiah 26:3-4

26:3 You keep completely safe the people who maintain their faith,

for they trust in you. ¹² 

26:4 Trust in the Lord from this time forward, ¹³ 

even in Yah, the Lord, an enduring protector! ¹⁴ 

Matthew 10:37

10:37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Mark 10:28-31

10:28 Peter began to speak to him, “Look, ¹⁵  we have left everything to follow you!” ¹⁶  10:29 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, ¹⁷  there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel 10:30 who will not receive in this age ¹⁸  a hundred times as much – homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions ¹⁹  – and in the age to come, eternal life. ²⁰  10:31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

Luke 14:26

14:26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate ²¹  his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, ²²  he cannot be my disciple.

Galatians 1:16

1:16 to reveal his Son in ²³  me so that I could preach him ²⁴  among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from ²⁵  any human being, ²⁶ 

Hebrews 11:8

11:8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.

Hebrews 11:17-19

11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, ²⁷  yet he was ready to offer up ²⁸  his only son. 11:18 God had told him, “Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,” ²⁹  11:19 and he reasoned ³⁰  that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense ³¹  he received him back from there.

[17:23]  ¹ tn Heb “Ishmael his son and all born in his house and all bought with money, every male among the men of the house of Abraham.”

[17:23]  ² tn Heb “circumcised the flesh of their foreskin.” The Hebrew expression is somewhat pleonastic and has been simplified in the translation.

[21:14]  ³ tn Heb “and Abraham rose up early in the morning and he took.”

[21:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “bread,” although the term can be used for food in general.

[21:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “He put upon her shoulder, and the boy [or perhaps, “and with the boy”], and he sent her away.” It is unclear how “and the boy” relates syntactically to what precedes. Perhaps the words should be rearranged and the text read, “and he put [them] on her shoulder and he gave to Hagar the boy.”

[21:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “she went and wandered.”

[21:14]  ⁷ tn Or “desert,” although for English readers this usually connotes a sandy desert like the Sahara rather than the arid wasteland of this region with its sparse vegetation.

[119:60]  ⁸ tn Heb “I hurry and I do not delay to keep your commands.”

[9:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “Whatever your hand finds to do.”

[9:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Sheol.”

[9:10]  ¹¹ tn Or “where you are about to go.”

[26:3]  ¹² tn Heb “[one of] firm purpose you will keep [in] peace, peace, for in you he possesses trust.” The Hebrew term יֵצֶר (yetser) refers to what one devises in the mind; סָמוּךְ (samukh) probably functions here like an attributive adjective and carries the nuance “firm.” So the phrase literally means, “a firm purpose,” but as the object of the verb “keep, guard,” it must stand by metonymy for the one(s) who possess a firm purpose. In this context the “righteous nation” (v. 2) is probably in view and the “firm purpose” refers to their unwavering faith in God’s vindication (see 25:9). In this context שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace”), which is repeated for emphasis, likely refers to national security, not emotional or psychological composure (see vv. 1-2). The passive participle בָּטוּחַ (batuakh) expresses a state that results from the subject’s action.

[26:4]  ¹³ tn Or “forevermore.” For other uses of the phrase עֲדֵי־עַד (’ade-’ad) see Isa 65:18 and Pss 83:17; 92:7.

[26:4]  ¹⁴ tc The Hebrew text has “for in Yah, the Lord, an everlasting rock.” Some have suggested that the phrase בְּיָהּ (beyah, “in Yah”) is the result of dittography. A scribe seeing כִּי יְהוָה (ki yÿhvah) in his original text would somehow have confused the letters and accidentally inserted בְּיָהּ between the words (bet and kaf [ב and כ] can be confused in later script phases). A number of English versions retain both divine names for emphasis (ESV, NIV, NKJV, NRSV, NLT). One of the Qumran texts (1QIsa^a) confirms the MT reading as well.

[10:28]  ¹⁵ sn Peter wants reassurance that the disciples’ response and sacrifice has been noticed.

[10:28]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “We have left everything and followed you.” Koine Greek often used paratactic structure when hypotactic was implied.

[10:29]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[10:30]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “this time” (καιρός, kairos), but for stylistic reasons this has been translated “this age” here.

[10:30]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “with persecutions.” The “all” has been supplied to clarify that the prepositional phrase belongs not just to the “fields.”

[10:30]  ²⁰ sn Note that Mark (see also Matt 19:29; Luke 10:25, 18:30) portrays eternal life as something one receives in the age to come, unlike John, who emphasizes the possibility of receiving eternal life in the present (John 5:24).

[14:26]  ²¹ tn This figurative use operates on a relative scale. God is to be loved more than family or self.

[14:26]  ²² tn Grk “his own soul,” but ψυχή (yuch) is frequently used of one’s physical life. It clearly has that meaning in this context.

[1:16]  ²³ tn Or “to me”; the Greek preposition ἐν (en) can mean either, depending on the context.

[1:16]  ²⁴ tn This pronoun refers to “his Son,” mentioned earlier in the verse.

[1:16]  ²⁵ tn Or “I did not consult with.” For the translation “I did not go to ask advice from” see L&N 33.175.

[1:16]  ²⁶ tn Grk “from flesh and blood.”

[11:17]  ²⁷ tn Here “received the promises” refers to the pledges themselves, not to the things God promised.

[11:17]  ²⁸ tn Grk “he was offering up.” The tense of this verb indicates the attempt or readiness to sacrifice Isaac without the actual completion of the deed.

[11:18]  ²⁹ tn Grk “in Isaac seed will be named for you.”

[11:19]  ³⁰ tn Grk “having reasoned,” continuing the ideas of v. 17.

[11:19]  ³¹ tn Grk “in/by a symbol.”